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No Doubt has wasted no time between debuting the premiere single from their upcoming new album and releasing its video. The clip for the track, “Settle Down,” is brightly colored and multicultural, featuring lots of dancing and one of Gwen Stefani’s signature hair-dos. Basically it’s on par with No Doubt’s formative music videos.
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Whether you like the new single or not (it’s growing on us, although it feels a little watered down for a first single), you can’t argue with the fact that this video is compelling. In the clip, the members of No Doubt each drive a semi truck decorated with various cultural elements (there is a Harajuku girl in the back of Stefani’s truck) and talk to each other on the CB radios. The video’s director Sophie Muller explained this to Rolling Stone, noting, “I think (bassist Tony Kanal) came up with the idea that we should do something with trucks. The idea is they are all driving to meet after having had their separate lives over the last 10 years. It’s such a mix of cultures, their band, and what their music is like. We tried to do something that resembled different parts of the world rather than a specific place.”
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Once the four band members meet (and boy is drummer Adrian Young rocking a sweet ponytail) they have a party that involves dancing and performing and two more Harajuku girls who presumably appear out of Stefani’s truck. It’s a feel-good video that is propelled by the band’s enthusiasm and clear delight at being back together again onscreen. Watch below:
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The band premiered the clip this evening via E! and they spoke to Ryan Seacrest about the video and their new single. Stefani said of the track, “I hate talking about what the songs are about because I feel like I already put so much into the song, of myself, but I think that song, and a lot of the record, is just about being overwhelmed by so much going on and how to balance all of it. That’d be a good way of summing it up.” Check out the interview here.
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What do you think of the video for “Settle Down”? Is this a return to form for No Doubt? Tell us in the comments.
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For more from No Doubt head to their Myspace Radio channel here.
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